Mark 11:24 - "Therefore I say unto you, whatever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you will receive them, and you shall have them." Faith says, "I can't see it, but I believe it is there."
Faith never deals with what you have done, but with what you yet could do -- everything you could be is you now, waiting for you to make demands on it by faith in God.
In Mark 11:24, very often, the Church has misread the word desire. We have expected, perhaps, that the word desire means "what we are dreaming about." No. Desire is "craving enough to sacrifice for." Thus, whatever you desire when you pray, you shall have -- but only what you desire. Not what you pray for -- only what you desire when you pray.
Faith never deals with what you have done, but with what you yet could do -- everything you could be is you now, waiting for you to make demands on it by faith in God.
In Mark 11:24, very often, the Church has misread the word desire. We have expected, perhaps, that the word desire means "what we are dreaming about." No. Desire is "craving enough to sacrifice for." Thus, whatever you desire when you pray, you shall have -- but only what you desire. Not what you pray for -- only what you desire when you pray.
